JACK BAUER AND MICHAEL SCOFIELD TEAM UP IN THE ALL-NEW EVENT SERIES “24: ESCAPE PLAN” PREMIERING 2018 ON FOX

It’s been years since JACK BAUER (Kiefer Sutherland) surrendered himself to the Russians in exchange for CHLOE O’BRIAN. When clues suggest that he might still be alive and is being held in a Moscow prison, CTU enlists the help of MICHAEL SCOFIELD (Wentworth Miller) to engineer his most important escape ever.

Joining Michael will be two of Fox River State Penitentiary’s most notorious escapees, THEODORE “T-BAG” BAGWELL (Robert Knepper) and LINCOLN BURROWS (Dominic Purcell). Computer expert CHLOE O’BRIAN (Mary Lynn Rajskub) quarterbacks the mission to save her best friend with TONY ALMEIDA (Carlos Bernard) also pulled back into the action. But escaping prison is just the beginning. Can the team escape the country in just 24 hours?

“Our producers came up with a really compelling and organic story for this crossover event series,” said Fox Television Group CEO Dana Walden. “I know that our actors on both shows are looking forward to interacting with each other. It was just a fresh and fun idea for them and they were both on board right off the bat.”

The project will retain the real-time, pulse-pounding, fast-paced format with split screens and complex interweaving storylines, with each episode representing one hour of an eventful day.

Originally premiering on November 6, 2001, “24” was nominated for a total of 73 Emmy Awards, winning for Outstanding Drama Series in 2006. Over eight seasons, Kiefer Sutherland garnered seven Emmy Award nominations and one win for Outstanding Lead Actor – Drama Series. While the series gained global recognition, Sutherland’s portrayal of the legendary character penetrated the American psyche like no other dramatic television character to become part of the cultural lexicon.

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Frank

WouldntYouLikeToKnow

This would in fact be brilliant, even if the two shows can’t co-exist in the same universe (different presidents). It would be pretty much exactly what fans want. But we can’t have that, can we? It’s funny how an april fool’s joke is more compelling than what they’re putting out. And if the writing staff consisted of mostly Prison Break writers, even better.

PB is already jumping the shark by resurrecting Michael for the new season, despite the fact he should be double dead (brain thing + electrocution). So this crossover joke isn’t that far out there. The new PB is still going to blow 24 Legacy to pieces, creatively. It’s sad for me to say this cause I love 24. And Legacy is entertaining. But it’s not breaking any new ground. Legacy doesn’t take any risks and doesn’t show me anything I’ve not seen before.

I never thought I’d ever be more excited about Prison Break than a season of 24 that has Tony in it, but here we are.

WouldntYouLikeToKnow

Prison Break Seasons 1 & 2 was some of the best TV had to offer at the time, IMO. Went a bit downhill in S4 but it was still quite entertaining. It’s too bad Mahone won’t be in this new season. Though, his character was definitely more fun when he chased the guys, yeah. Maybe that’s why they left him out.

Cassie

Chlojack

XAM

We may look back on this day as the catalyst for the greatest season of 24 ever made, born of an April fools joke… but bollocks, even if they entertained the idea they’d quickly push it aside, because attacks, because moles, because CTU, because fuck you.

24marathonman

What a let down after glancing the headline. The fact that this web site proposed this as a April Fool’s gag is pretty damning of the current 24: Legacy. I hope the stars of the show don’t see this because it is not their fault but I hope the writers of the show do see this and take the hint.

Speaking of the writers, what could be logical explanations of why this writing seems so sub-par by 24 standards? Is it because they brought in some new people and they had a poisonous effect? And with all of the 24 veteran producers involved, how did they let it happen right under their noses? I can’t believe Keifer Sutherland didn’t speak up and try to intervene. Was it because of budget constraints? And it still has not been explained why Veronica Cartright’s character was cut out of the story?

XAM

WouldntYouLikeToKnow

It’s actually his cousin. This photoshop is pretty cute, though. Still waiting for Mariana to go the way of Edgar and his mother. Death to biological or radioactive shit runs in the family. Maybe they were hoping to kill her in a sequel-season.

Mariana said Edgar taught her everything she knows, or something to that effect. Makes you wonder how old she was at the time, considering some 14 years passed (I think) between Edgar’s death and Legacy. She looks mid-20ish to me now.

shafagh

Asian Rebel

LOL I actually have a fanfiction idea for a crossover between 24 and Sons of Anarchy that takes place between Seasons 4 and 5 of 24. This is before Jimmy Smits first appears in SOA. In this plot, while Jack Bauer is still off the grid, he discovers that that SAMCRO has unknowingly smuggled parts for a biological warfare device into the U.S. and that is scheduled to be delivered to a Syrian refugee that only Jack knows is really a terrorist. Now Jack and the Sons must work together to track down the weapon and stop the terrorists from using it in a massive attack on America.

Joshua

Shaun Clark

24: Legacy is not rubbish, it’s brilliant. If you think it’s rubbish, why you watching it now when it’s towards the end of the season? Like I said before, you lot moaners would stop way before now. This spin off is fresh with 24.

WouldntYouLikeToKnow

Not the guy you you’re replying to, but IMO Legacy is entertaining, but certainly not brilliant. We’ve seen this all before with Jack, except it was more exciting then. I’m personally watching it because, like I said, it’s still entertaining and Tony is my favourite character. I care about 24 and want it to be brilliant. Legacy had its moments, but if you could point out to me why it’s brilliant, that’d be fantastic. I want to enjoy it more than I currently do. As it is, I’m just incredibly disappointed with how little they’re using Tony after hyping his return up on social media. And they’ve been barely developing the characters at all. It’s hard to care when I still don’t know these people.

Things I like about Legacy would be the fight in the smoke in the first episode. The bridge explosion with Amira. Andy is cool. Tony’s facial expressions. Huh… Other characters have potential. Jimmy Smits is a fantastic actor. But they’re just wasting his talents, just like they’re wasting Carlos Bernard. Hopefully that changes next episode, but I have my doubts.

I think all of us here want 24 to be good. It’s important to talk about why it is or isn’t as good as it used to be. The original 24 used to shock me and surprise me. Legacy hasn’t done this, except for when Amira’s boyfriend’s corpse suddenly got up and ran out to the soccer field. I don’t know what it says about 24 when that storyline is more surprising than the protagonist’s. >_>

That hand-to-hand fight scene in the smoke/dirt cloud from the pilot episode is still my favorite part of Legacy so far. And that wasn’t even in the script, it was something that Stephen Hopkins seemingly changed up while filming.

Asian Rebel

Yes that was a nice fight scene in the beginning, and I personally found the Amira storyline rather compelling though some people didn’t. It wasn’t as good as the Behrooz storyline but I liked it better than Marcos Al-Zacar, Simone Al-Harazi, and especially Ahhhkkkmed (that is one actor I can’t take seriously as a terrorist not after watching Harold and Kumar and Van Wilder). I like how they didn’t have her back down at the last moment or hesitate like Behrooz and Marcos.

Also think Sidra is very sexy, its probably Moran Atias’s hottest appearance, I liked her leather look here much more than her fancy dresses in Tyrant. I find Jadalla a better villain than Bierko or Kingsley. The subway station shootout was nice though it could have been longer and involved more men. And I liked how the subplot with Isaac did go into the main plot, unlike the subplots in Seasons 1 and 3 with Alan Miliken and Keith Palmer. I still don’t get the point of the plot with Keith Palmer and his shrink which had nothing to do with the main plot.

Brad

The scandal involving Keith was another expression of season one’s core theme – the struggle to separate the demands of our professional lives with our personal lives (including family) and the myriad consequences those entanglements can have.

WouldntYouLikeToKnow

Your mentioning of the subway station shootout reminds me of another thing I actually liked about Legacy: Eric getting hit by a car and immediately getting back up. Pretty badass. If they had more shit like that, it’d be fantastic.

Sebastian Monroe

I woke up this morning around 6, and saw I had an email notification about this article. I quickly started reading it, and I could not contain my excitement. The idea was/is simply brilliant. I then read the line about how Tony will also be back in action, and at that point, realized it was probably posted on April 1st, and was thus an April Fool’s Day joke. I immediately stopped reading and let out a huge “ah dammit!!!”

Unbelievable how you can come up with an idea for both 24 and Prison Break that’s infinitely better than anything Fox could or will ever come up with.

RackBauerHadGreatTits

JoeV1998

I know this is a April Fools Joke, but I want Jack to leave with good terms for the Russians. They should be a moment where the Russians want Jack to work with a Russian Agency to save the country and for that Jack gets immunity. At first I think Jack should be hesitant and say no and for that they offer him immunity.

WouldntYouLikeToKnow

Then at the start of the following episode he wishes Eric good luck and leaves. And in the finale we get a short scene between Tony and Sidra, in which Sidra leaves Tony because he still has lingering feelings for Rebecca. Tony starts pouring beer into the cubs mug to numb the pain. Roll credits.

Laurence

Tav-El

I could never get into 24, but I think I would like it better if I tried again. That happened with Stargate SG-1, and it ended up being my favorite franchise ever. Prison Break is also one of my favorite series, and this crossover sounds badass. I think you’ve stumbled onto something brilliant. Let’s make this happen.

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